The Will of General George Washington
George Washington
First edition of Washington's will, "one of the most historically significant and personally revealing documents he ever wrote... intended as a final testament to the human values he cherished most." Exceedingly rare in original wrappers. $22,500. | More...
The Pennsylvania Magazine, April 1775
Edited by Thomas Paine
First edition of the Thomas Paine-edited Pennsylvania Magazine for April, 1775, including a graphic, eye-witness report of the first military engagement of the American Revolution (the Battle of Lexington and Concord), and also mentioning Paul Revere and his Midnight Ride. $6000. | More...
Journal of the Proceedings of the Congress,
Held at Philadelphia, May 10, 1775
Continental Congress
Extraordinarily rare first edition of the Journal of the Second Continental Congress, recording the pivotal events and resolutions from its convening the month after Lexington and Concord, on May 10, 1775, through its adjournment on September 5, 1775, meeting in “strictest secrecy behind closed doors because of the number of British agents” in Philadelphia, with delegates including Founding Fathers Jefferson, Washington and Franklin, published by order of Congress and printed in Philadelphia by William and Thomas Bradford, official printers to the new government. Produced in very limited quantities, copies are quite rare and desirable. This copy belonged to Moses Marshall, prominent 18th-century Philadelphia botanist and horticulturist. An uncut copy complete with half title. $60,000. | More...
July 1773 Document
Signed by John Hancock
Very rare 1773 manuscript document signed by John Hancock as a Boston Selectman and six others, including Timothy Newell, granting permission to a Boston ship captain's widow to "retail rum and other distilled spirits." Three years after signing this document, in 1776, Hancock, as President of the Second Continental Congress, would be the first to sign the Declaration of Independence, reportedly penning his name large so King George III could read it without glasses. As Founding Father, Hancock was "a key figure in securing independence and creating the republic." Twice governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in 1788 he was named President of the Constitutional Convention debating the U.S. Constitution—urging its ratification in what many historians consider "Hancock's finest moment." Handsomely matted with an engraved portrait. $13,500. | More...
History of the Rise, Progress and Termination
of the American Revolution
Mercy Warren
First edition of Mercy Warren's pioneering three-volume history, offering a rare "insider's view of the Revolution," begun in the earliest days of America's struggle for independence, in contemporary sheep boards. $12,500. | More...
Constitutions des Treize États-Unis de L'Amérique
Benjamin Franklin
Rare first French edition, one of only 600 copies (including 100 large paper), of the Constitutions of the Several Independent States (1781), proposed by Franklin while America's ambassador to the French Court and amidst his negotiations for peace with Great Britain. This exceptional edition, octavo issue, contains "over 50 footnotes by [Franklin], and shows on title the United States seal… its first appearance in a book" (Howes C716). $8500. | More...
An Astronomical Diary
Nathaniel Ames, with epitaph by Benjamin Franklin
Ames' 1771 Almanack, containing the first known printing of Ben Franklin's humorous epitaph of himself, "the most famous of American epitaphs" (Mark Van Doren). $1950. | More...
Framed Chromolithographic Portraits of
George & Martha Washington
Mid-19th-century chromolithographic portraits of George and Martha Washington, laid on canvas, each in a contemporary gilt frame. $6500. | More...
George Washington
Signed by Woodrow Wilson
Early edition of Wilson's fascinating biography of George Washington, with dozens of black-and-white illustrations by artists such as Howard Pyle and Harry Fenn, signed in the year before his death: "Woodrow Wilson 1923." $4200. | More...
Alexander Hamilton
Signed by Ron Chernow
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's acclaimed biography of Hamilton, signed on the title page by Chernow, a fine copy. $650. | More...
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